Monday, 20 December 2010

i drew this last night, i like it a lot. when i'm back in london i'll scan it properly along with a bunch of other stuff i've done recently.

exciting plans have been made this weekend, gonna start a whole load of work related to the warehouse and hopefully going to make some little publications, and possibly work towards putting on an exhibition with sergei/other warehouse people. properly setting up a collective is going to be cool :)

for the first section of the list project i made some little japanese bound books with prints on the front. my words were chokkan, moyogi, ishi seki, hokidachi, sabamiki, kengai, and kabudachi... which are all forms of bonsai trees like "informal upright" etc

the books are 5cm square each, and although i don't really like these anymore i'm still pleased to have learned how to do a new print technique through making them.

here's my first attempt, you can see from the general fucked-ness that getting the hang of the wood engraving tools took me a while! (about half an hour lulz)here's my 5 woodblocks i used for my actual prints, you can't see the images all that clearly because i cleaned the ink off them with white spirits so i didn't have to worry about getting it all over everything carrying them around after doing my prints.but here's one of them close up, the ink caught in the grooves so y'all can see what it's like.and here's 5 little finished books. joyyyy.

i don't really like them anymore, but oh well.

i especially don't like the one on the far right, i disliked that one from the start really! i might leave it out of my final piece when i hand it in. stupid hokidachi, nobody likes you. go away.

i took this photo nearly 2 years ago now, when i was visiting london randomly during my art foundation. i'd not uploaded it before but it's been on the wall in my various rooms pretty much since i took it. melissa prompted me to upload it seeing as i like it so much. it's taken at piccadilly circus in the evening, i love the strange quiet and desolation the photo has, despite the location it was taken. the featureless figures in the foreground (nice alliteration there katie) really capture the wonderful feeling i get when i go for a wander in central, walking the city to experience it, anonymous in a crowd, little flaneur that i am.

i really need to get a 35mm film camera again, i might look into loaning one from uni, although i don't know if there will be restrictions because i'm not a photography student, like if they get first dibs... i dunno. i miss using film and i miss using the darkroom. it's been faaaar too long my love!

this was a little book basically having a rant about an awful week i had back in august when i was househunting and everything possible went wrong for a few days, it's got lots more pages but these are the ones i like best :)